 | English poets - 1790 - 326 lehte
...puff away! A fhort-liv'd flower, that with the day muft fade! A fleeting vapour, and an empty made! A ftream, that filently but fwiftly glides To meet...tears, and ended in a groan! Ev'n while I write, the transient NOW is paft, And death more near, this fentence than the laft! As fome weak ifthmus feas... | |
 | 1797 - 386 lehte
...being lost alike by pain or joy 1 A fly can kill it or a worm destroy! impair'd by labour and by ease undone, Commenc'd in tears and ended in a groan ! Ev'n while I write ihe transient Now is past, And death more near this sentence than the lastl As some weak isthmus seas... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 528 lehte
...or joy ' А Яу can kill it, or a worm delíroy 1 mpair'd by labour, and by eafe undone, 'ommenc'd in tears, and ended in a groan .' Ev'n while I write,...tranfient NOW is paft, And death more near, this fentence thaa the lad! As fomc weak ifthmus feas from feas divides, leat by ruft waves, and fapp'd by niftbg... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 lehte
...shade ! A stream that silently, but swiftly, glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy ; A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labour, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan ! Even while... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 lehte
...shade ! A stream that silently, but swiftly, glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy ; A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labour, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan ! Even while... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 lehte
...shade! A stream that silently, but swiftly, glides To meet eternity's unmeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy; A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labour, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan! Even while... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 lehte
...shade! A stream that silently, but swiftly, glides To meet eternity's unmeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy; A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labour, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan! Even while... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 518 lehte
...never dies—till the death of the aspirant, when hope and he are buried ii» one grave. A being lost alike by pain or joy ! A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy ! Inspired by labour, and by ease [not its own] undone. Commenced in tears and ended in a groan.—BKOOMK,... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 422 lehte
...never dies—till the death of the aspirant, when hope and he are buried in one grave. A being lost alike by pain or joy! A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Inspired by labour, and by ease [not its own] undone, Commenced in tears and ended in a groan.—BaooMs.... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 422 lehte
...never dies—till the death of the aspirant, when hope and he are buried in one grave. A being lost alike by pain or joy ! A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy ! Inspired by labour, and by ease [not its own] undone. Commenced in tears and ended in a groan.—BROOMR.... | |
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A ftream, that filently but fwiftly glides To meet eternity's immeafur'd tides ! A being, loft alike by pain or joy! A fly can kill it, or a worm deftroy ! Impair'd by labour, and by eafe undone, Commenc'd in tears, and ended in a groan ! Ev'n while I... 
